Shadow 044 - The Treasures Of Death 12-15-33, The by Maxwell Grant

Author:Maxwell Grant [Grant, Maxwell]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Street and Smith
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

HALF an hour later, Lamont Cranston appeared in the reading room of the Cobalt Club. Tall, calm of demeanor, he appeared to have been in the place all evening. There was nothing in his manner that linked him with the episode that he had just experienced in his guise as The Shadow.

Wearing the physiognomy of the multimillionaire, The Shadow sat in meditation. Tonight, he had experienced one of the oddest situations of his strange career. He was assembling mental facts to gain the answer.

At the time The Shadow had left his observation post, Compton Salwood had been alive. The Shadow had been forced to battle mobsters. He had entered Salwood’s office to find the man dead. He had admitted Joe Cardona, the detective who had come to talk with Salwood.

What of the man who had lurked in the front shop? What part had he played? Had he gained the office and returned while The Shadow had battled with the mob? Had he decided to escape by the front because some one was buzzing for entrance through the rear?

Compton Salwood was dead; only one man of all the mobster crew could have killed him. That man had managed to escape The Shadow’s vigilance.

There were perplexing points about this episode. They were puzzling even to The Shadow. Yet in his mental calculations, this fighter who wore the guise of Lamont Cranston was considering the time element involved. His keen brain was picturing all possibilities.

Another half an hour passed before club members saw Lamont Cranston arise and stroll from the reading room. Outside the Cobalt Club, the tall millionaire entered his waiting limousine. At his order, Stanley headed the car for the Holland Tunnel.

A soft laugh sounded in the darkness of the big automobile. It was the whispered echo of The Shadow’s mockery. It was a voiced answer to a pressing problem.

Despite the complications that had occurred at Compton Salwood’s; despite the fact that Salwood’s lips were sealed, The Shadow had gained clews to crime. He was ready for another move.

At Lamont Cranston’s order, Stanley stopped the limousine while his employer went to make a telephone call. After Cranston returned, the car continued on its way. The soft laugh echoed once again in the darkness.

Though chance had tricked him tonight, The Shadow could see the opening trail that would lead him to the crime maker who had ordered the death of Compton Salwood.

The presence of the mobsters; the flight of the lone man who had lingered; the strange murder of Compton Salwood - all these facts were fitting into a complete scheme.

The evidence that The Shadow had gained prior to Salwood’s return to his office was sufficient to give a clew to those which the master crime hunter already possessed.

Despite the efforts of a supercrook to balk detection by slaying Compton Salwood, The Shadow would continue his lone battle. Coming events would show him the way to final triumph.

In all his calculations, The Shadow took account of chance. He had a way of meeting circumstances that had never failed.

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